Shannon Riggs will be conducting a workshop for children’s writers at Chemeketa Community College on Sat. May 2 nd from 10 am – 3 pm. This will be a one-day workshop that will provide writers with some practical how-to’s for each stage of the writing process. To learn more, please visit www.myspace.com/chemwrites.
There will also be children’s book drive to benefit Family Building Blocks of Salem. If you bring a book, you get a literary lollipop!
Workshop info and registration:
Sat. May 2, 10 am – 3 pm
Chemeketa Bldg. 3/Rm. 100
CRN 78037 ($75)
Discounts available for Chemeketa staff & students
Contact: jvanstav@chemeketa.edu
(503) 365-4728
Shannon Riggs is the author of Not in Room 201 and she has been a Salem Chapter presenter.
April Presenter: F.I. Goldhaber
What Prose Writers Can Learn from Poetry
Poetry does not require rhyme, complicated structure, or esoteric language and imagery. At its best, poetry distills narrative and imagery down to the fewest, strongest words possible. By embracing poetry, prose writers can learn how to find the core essence of their stories, allowing them to condense their narration into fewer, more powerful words.
F.I. Goldhaber's second poetry collection, Pairs of Poems, was ranked number three in the Preditors & Editors readers poll for poems published in 2008. She has shared her poetry at spoken word events in Salem and Portland and has appeared at venues such as Wordstock, Oregon Literary Review, Barnes & Noble Lloyd Center Reading Series, Chemeketa Community College, etc. She also has given presentations on subjects as diverse as marketing, writing erotica, and organization building. In addition to two collections of poetry, more than 40 of her poems have been published in magazines, journals, e-zines, and newspapers. She has sold 16 short stories and had three erotica novels published under another name.
Poetry does not require rhyme, complicated structure, or esoteric language and imagery. At its best, poetry distills narrative and imagery down to the fewest, strongest words possible. By embracing poetry, prose writers can learn how to find the core essence of their stories, allowing them to condense their narration into fewer, more powerful words.
F.I. Goldhaber's second poetry collection, Pairs of Poems, was ranked number three in the Preditors & Editors readers poll for poems published in 2008. She has shared her poetry at spoken word events in Salem and Portland and has appeared at venues such as Wordstock, Oregon Literary Review, Barnes & Noble Lloyd Center Reading Series, Chemeketa Community College, etc. She also has given presentations on subjects as diverse as marketing, writing erotica, and organization building. In addition to two collections of poetry, more than 40 of her poems have been published in magazines, journals, e-zines, and newspapers. She has sold 16 short stories and had three erotica novels published under another name.
Friday, March 13, 2009
Saturday, March 7, 2009
SPARK: Accepting Submissions
SPARK is an exciting new voice in the Salem, Mid-Valley, and greater Oregon culture.
We long to create a well-written, professionally designed, hip, literate magazine which will delve into the community, art, music, and culture that surrounds us.
It is being designed as a cutting edge publication We want to add to the vitality and spark of our community by capturing and sharing the (sometimes hidden) spirit that surrounds us. We want to break barriers, push boundaries, pull back curtains, and shine a light into the misty memories.
There is so much intrigue, excitement, creativity, mystery, passion, goodness, beauty, titillation, and yes, weirdness that surrounds us, and we feel that this story needs to be told: through narrative non-fiction, through creative photography, and through graphic art.
We are currently seeking contributors of all kinds: writers, editors, graphic artists, photographers, visual artists, volunteers...EVERYTHING! If you have it in you to create, we want you! VERY much!(We do accept submissions from writers in Portland, Eugene or elsewhere. We also accept stories that are not necessarily about Salem, Corvallis, or the Mid-Valley BUT that IS our primary focus.)
Contact Info
Email:
cultureshockproject@gmail.com
Website:
http://www.myspace.com/sparkofsalem
Location:
Salem, OR
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=54452079861#/group.php?gid=58879021206
We long to create a well-written, professionally designed, hip, literate magazine which will delve into the community, art, music, and culture that surrounds us.
It is being designed as a cutting edge publication We want to add to the vitality and spark of our community by capturing and sharing the (sometimes hidden) spirit that surrounds us. We want to break barriers, push boundaries, pull back curtains, and shine a light into the misty memories.
There is so much intrigue, excitement, creativity, mystery, passion, goodness, beauty, titillation, and yes, weirdness that surrounds us, and we feel that this story needs to be told: through narrative non-fiction, through creative photography, and through graphic art.
We are currently seeking contributors of all kinds: writers, editors, graphic artists, photographers, visual artists, volunteers...EVERYTHING! If you have it in you to create, we want you! VERY much!(We do accept submissions from writers in Portland, Eugene or elsewhere. We also accept stories that are not necessarily about Salem, Corvallis, or the Mid-Valley BUT that IS our primary focus.)
Contact Info
Email:
cultureshockproject@gmail.com
Website:
http://www.myspace.com/sparkofsalem
Location:
Salem, OR
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=54452079861#/group.php?gid=58879021206
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